State of the Climate in Asia 2024
<p>The World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report warns that the region is warming nearly twice as fast as the global average, driving more extreme weather and posing
Climate Change
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Australians plans emissions trading market
Australian stockbrokers are planning to implement an emissions trading market within the next year. The move will be one of the first concrete realisations of proposals originally mooted at the 1997
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Agriculture wilts under EI Nino, La Nina
EI Nino and La Nina, the periodic global weather phenomena, played havoc with the agricultural systems, food supply chains besides life and property of people in several continents this year. Damage
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Centre to share water project upkeep costs
The centre has decided to bear half the maintenance cost of irrigation projects after failing to persuade state govenemnts to raise irrigation cess which partly funds the cost. The pending
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India's first geoscientific data centre inaugurated
The first geoscientific data centre of the country, which was inaugurated at the Geological Survey of India in Calcutta today will serve as the largest repository of knowledge on earth sciences of
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Supercomputer alert
Doomsday seas to ravage India in 2050:Doomsday now has a date. ALmost. By the year 2050, sea-levels will rise by 21 centimetres and ravage the coasts of India and its neighbouring countries, global
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Move to impose green quotas blocked
Argentina has called on developing nations to do more to reduce greenhouse gases, opening the biggest U.N. climate conference since a global warming treaty in December. Late yesterday, developing
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SC restrains construction of crest gates at Almatti dam
The Supreme Court in the 'Almatti Dam Case' today has directed that till further orders of the court, the construction of crest gates at Almatti dam will not begin till January,
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Polar bears threatened by dramatic Arctic warming
As goverments gathered at Buenos Aires to resume talks on how to combat climate change, Greenpeace warned that impacts of this global phenomenon are already appearing. The melting and retreating of
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Climate change 'could add to African hunger'
Climate change could put 18 per cent more of the population of Africa at risk of hunger by the 2050s than would otherwise be the case, scientists said. An analysis of the impact of global warming
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Scientists for revised emission rates
As patron of the Peoples' Empowerment Mission, former Union Environment & Forests Minister, Prof. Saifuddin Soz joined hands with the UNESCO in organising a seminar on "climate change - impact and